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Hi All. My question is:
What would you consider if employees have to go to offsite storage, warehouse owned by other company and manually unload containers or drive their forklift truck and handle the pallets?
Also civil law consideration..
Thank you
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You need a written agreement between the two employers so everybody knows who can do what and who responsible things like maintaining equipment and reporting faults etc. There needs to be agreed written procedures which are communicated to the staff doing the work.
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Your employees - your RA Their site - their site rules (access, induction, PPE, operating equipment)
Why are your employees going to these other premises?
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Your employees - your RA Their site - their site rules (access, induction, PPE, operating equipment)
Why are your employees going to these other premises?
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They gonto unload our containers and then stock is being located in storage area. We go to do a low stock transfers. We must use offsite storage due to lack of space.
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As a frequent and repeat activity as AK says roles & responsibilites clearly defined in writing especially if they are willing to permit your operatives to drive their FLT rather than providing a driver. Bit surprised that matertial transfers are not included in your agreement with the location - in previous roles warehousing off business it has been the site personnel storing & picking with our personnel verifying stock takes/rotation and investigating quality/damage - this clear delinitiation preventing any dispute over who put the FLT fork through the load
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As a frequent and repeat activity as AK says roles & responsibilites clearly defined in writing especially if they are willing to permit your operatives to drive their FLT rather than providing a driver. Bit surprised that matertial transfers are not included in your agreement with the location - in previous roles warehousing off business it has been the site personnel storing & picking with our personnel verifying stock takes/rotation and investigating quality/damage - this clear delinitiation preventing any dispute over who put the FLT fork through the load
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Has your driver been trained on the specific FLT? We had a similar situation a couple of years ago .Here we use electric counter balance at the 3rd party site they had gas trucks .I arranged for a conversion course at their premises so our driver could then drive the gas FLT.
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as previosly stated a written agreement is needed between you and the other company. from your post in ny pinion the storeage company is getting a free service. you are doing the loadi g and unloding and all the work includi g using their equipme t. what do they do when your drivers are onsite ? it seems the do nothiing to help you !
regards mike
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Not only should the owner of the site 'authorise' FLT drivers on their site (and I doubt they would be allowed to authorise a non-employee to drive their FLT), have either you or the site owners also considered the insurance implications? With respect to your employee, the site owners are are subject to S3 of HASAWA and would have ultimate responisbility if there was an incident involving your employee, but no doubt there would be a massive fight to pass the blame onto your company..
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